The arrests weren't due to PD being broken. They were due to an uploader with a foolishly chosen uid providing enough information elsewhere to link his PD account to a forum account (he'd boasted about what he'd uploaded), with the forum account being used to find him.
Serves them right for using an ancient system (two generations behind, PD (Perfect Dark) via Share). This is like someone still using, say, Kazaa, and being surprised there are fake files.
No slowdown, but acceleration could be done with a Sundiver. Basically, you take your solar sail, drop it into an orbit that dips it almost to the surface of the sun, then deploy the sail. The combined solar wind and intense sunlight accelerate your probe up to some pretty impressive speeds.
It depends. If you're hacking out G-code by hand, then yes, every tool path is controlled by the sculptor. If you create a 3d model, then hand over all tooling control to a bit of software, you're a designer. The robot is essentially a sculptor then, deciding how to use the tool it's given to achieve a certain shape. You could argue that the machine isn't imagining the original design, but sculptors replicate existing designs all the time.
Entirely possible for most milling machines. The problem would stem from supporting the foil whilst milling. If you milled out the hollow centre, filled the cavity with resin, then milled away the rest, you could probably do it just fine, as long as the resin bonded the the remaining material well enough.
With the proliferation of multi-core CPUs and GPU clustering, I wonder how long until VMs simply become entirely separate physical systems sitting on your motherboard.
I wonder about that. I know the old adage of 'never attribute to deliberate malice what could be simple incompetence', but this could be a very shrewd move on behalf of Sony. People will pirate games, but you can't download console hardware (yes, yes, LOLemulators). Part of the PS2's success could be attributed to widespread casual game piracy making the console hardware attractive. And once you have the hardware, the temptation to impulse-buy games is greater. Even if you generally pirate everything, the lure of SHINY SHINY BOX is great. Sony have done almost the impossible in keeping the console hack-free while they drive down the manufacturing cost. Now they're close to breaking even (or even turning a profit) it might be worth a short-term drop in game sale revenues for the long-term domination of the market. Though whether things will actually turnout that way is anyone's guess.
A nuclear battery is not a nuclear reactor. And nuclear reactors are not prohibited: they're just deemed to risky to launch (and need to be parked in a long term high orbit, or risk raining down reactor bit that don't burn up), and generally are too large and heavy to be cost effective. It's nuclear weapons that are prohibited in space.
The summary irritates me. TMS isn't just sticking a big magnet next to the brain and hoping for the best. It's very focused, in the same way that an MRI scan is. A big magnetic field next to your head will not influence your moral decisions in the same way that waving a laser on a CD will not magically produce music.
It depends on where the bubbles are. The article mentions subsurface bubbles. If the bubble layer were BELOW the layer where phytoplankton live, the reflected light would allow them to 'double-dip', and INCREASE the rate of photosynthesis. Of course, keeping the bubbles low enough before they dissipate on their own may prove a challenge.
Any efforts to reverse "Anthropogenic global warming" should be confined to reducing the supposed causes.
All well and good, assuming that even instantly curtailing all anthropogenic CO2 emissions would make a jot of difference. If the climate is a feedback system [1], and enough CO2 has already been released for the runaway warming process to continue naturally as it has done many, many times in the past [2], then the damage is done. It's simply prudent to explore ALL the feasible geoengineering options available until it's clearly demonstrated they're not needed. Because if they are needed, they'll be needed badly.
[1] Yes, it is [2] We don't know yet, our models are not detailed and broad enough, and we haven't got enough data to check them against to ensure accurate forward predictions, and probably won't until it may be too late
Unfortunately, with typical 512kb torrent packets requiring over a thousand tweets each, BoT (Bittorrent over Tweet) is probably infeasible. Which means somebody will implement in the next week.
Nintendo tries more off the wall ideas than any other company in the industry.
To be fair, it also rehashes existing titles far more than any other company in the industry. The number of games in the Mario franchise alone must number over a hundred by now.
I've always wondered whether these 'lost laptops' are simply the personal laptops of employees, that should never have been anywhere near anything to do with GCHQ, and GCHQ is just being overly cautious (does not know what, if any, data accidentally ended up on a personal laptop, so assume the worst). Or it could just be garden variety incompetence. Except for the unlikely event of an intelligence service disclosing far more information than would be prudent, there's little to tell either way.
Over a decade ago ago when first heard of using frozen undersea methane deposits as a fuel source they were referred to as Methane Hydrate. Now, almost everywhere refers to them as Methane Clathrates. Why the change?
humans have had no evolutionary purpose for an appendix for millions of years - but our DNA hasn't gotten rid of it
Logic fail. Our appendix has been useless, but there is no evolutionary pressure to actively remove it (apart from a handful cases of appendicitis, it essentially causes no harm at all), so it stays in it's redundant state.
So, you don't actually want a netbook (a cheap, low powered laptop for surfing the web), you just want a regular small laptop? Buy a regular small laptop then.
Darn Slashdot's lack of an edit function (additional damnations to Firefox's lack of a grammar checker, and the inability of the human brain to operate correctly with minimal sleep).
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He's Begging the Question. He defines 'games' as 'interactive stories that aren't art', then uses this to prove that games aren't art.
The arrests weren't due to PD being broken. They were due to an uploader with a foolishly chosen uid providing enough information elsewhere to link his PD account to a forum account (he'd boasted about what he'd uploaded), with the forum account being used to find him.
Serves them right for using an ancient system (two generations behind, PD (Perfect Dark) via Share). This is like someone still using, say, Kazaa, and being surprised there are fake files.
Because Theora is much further along in development than Dirac?
No slowdown, but acceleration could be done with a Sundiver. Basically, you take your solar sail, drop it into an orbit that dips it almost to the surface of the sun, then deploy the sail. The combined solar wind and intense sunlight accelerate your probe up to some pretty impressive speeds.
How about EMC2?
It depends. If you're hacking out G-code by hand, then yes, every tool path is controlled by the sculptor. If you create a 3d model, then hand over all tooling control to a bit of software, you're a designer. The robot is essentially a sculptor then, deciding how to use the tool it's given to achieve a certain shape. You could argue that the machine isn't imagining the original design, but sculptors replicate existing designs all the time.
Entirely possible for most milling machines. The problem would stem from supporting the foil whilst milling. If you milled out the hollow centre, filled the cavity with resin, then milled away the rest, you could probably do it just fine, as long as the resin bonded the the remaining material well enough.
With the proliferation of multi-core CPUs and GPU clustering, I wonder how long until VMs simply become entirely separate physical systems sitting on your motherboard.
I wonder about that. I know the old adage of 'never attribute to deliberate malice what could be simple incompetence', but this could be a very shrewd move on behalf of Sony. People will pirate games, but you can't download console hardware (yes, yes, LOLemulators). Part of the PS2's success could be attributed to widespread casual game piracy making the console hardware attractive. And once you have the hardware, the temptation to impulse-buy games is greater. Even if you generally pirate everything, the lure of SHINY SHINY BOX is great. Sony have done almost the impossible in keeping the console hack-free while they drive down the manufacturing cost. Now they're close to breaking even (or even turning a profit) it might be worth a short-term drop in game sale revenues for the long-term domination of the market. Though whether things will actually turnout that way is anyone's guess.
A nuclear battery is not a nuclear reactor. And nuclear reactors are not prohibited: they're just deemed to risky to launch (and need to be parked in a long term high orbit, or risk raining down reactor bit that don't burn up), and generally are too large and heavy to be cost effective. It's nuclear weapons that are prohibited in space.
magnets
The summary irritates me. TMS isn't just sticking a big magnet next to the brain and hoping for the best. It's very focused, in the same way that an MRI scan is. A big magnetic field next to your head will not influence your moral decisions in the same way that waving a laser on a CD will not magically produce music.
It depends on where the bubbles are. The article mentions subsurface bubbles. If the bubble layer were BELOW the layer where phytoplankton live, the reflected light would allow them to 'double-dip', and INCREASE the rate of photosynthesis. Of course, keeping the bubbles low enough before they dissipate on their own may prove a challenge.
Any efforts to reverse "Anthropogenic global warming" should be confined to reducing the supposed causes.
All well and good, assuming that even instantly curtailing all anthropogenic CO2 emissions would make a jot of difference. If the climate is a feedback system [1], and enough CO2 has already been released for the runaway warming process to continue naturally as it has done many, many times in the past [2], then the damage is done. It's simply prudent to explore ALL the feasible geoengineering options available until it's clearly demonstrated they're not needed. Because if they are needed, they'll be needed badly.
[1] Yes, it is
[2] We don't know yet, our models are not detailed and broad enough, and we haven't got enough data to check them against to ensure accurate forward predictions, and probably won't until it may be too late
Unfortunately, with typical 512kb torrent packets requiring over a thousand tweets each, BoT (Bittorrent over Tweet) is probably infeasible. Which means somebody will implement in the next week.
Can you speak in a high-pitched voice and know how to falsify ID over the internet?
Nintendo tries more off the wall ideas than any other company in the industry.
To be fair, it also rehashes existing titles far more than any other company in the industry. The number of games in the Mario franchise alone must number over a hundred by now.
Maybe you should check your links. That's a flat image, not a volumetric one.
It'll all be great until Zissou up and pilfers it while you're out.
I've always wondered whether these 'lost laptops' are simply the personal laptops of employees, that should never have been anywhere near anything to do with GCHQ, and GCHQ is just being overly cautious (does not know what, if any, data accidentally ended up on a personal laptop, so assume the worst). Or it could just be garden variety incompetence. Except for the unlikely event of an intelligence service disclosing far more information than would be prudent, there's little to tell either way.
Over a decade ago ago when first heard of using frozen undersea methane deposits as a fuel source they were referred to as Methane Hydrate. Now, almost everywhere refers to them as Methane Clathrates. Why the change?
Isn't this already very common in Japan?
Yep, the Mobile FeliCa system is pretty widely used for paying for bus/train tickets, groceries, etc.
humans have had no evolutionary purpose for an appendix for millions of years - but our DNA hasn't gotten rid of it
Logic fail. Our appendix has been useless, but there is no evolutionary pressure to actively remove it (apart from a handful cases of appendicitis, it essentially causes no harm at all), so it stays in it's redundant state.
So, you don't actually want a netbook (a cheap, low powered laptop for surfing the web), you just want a regular small laptop? Buy a regular small laptop then.
Darn Slashdot's lack of an edit function (additional damnations to Firefox's lack of a grammar checker, and the inability of the human brain to operate correctly with minimal sleep).